"manager Peter Grant. Grant contacted the promoters and convinced them to take on Led Zeppelin instead. To help publicise the band in America before the tour, Grant sent white label advance copies of the band's debut album to key FM radio stations. The album itself was issued on 17 January, mid-way though the tour. According to tour manager Richard Cole, the tour was underwritten by Grant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and bass player John Paul Jones, while singer Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham were paid a salary. For this stint of concerts, Led Zeppelin initially played as the support act"
"John Bonham John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer for the British rock band Led Zeppelin. Esteemed for his speed, power, fast bass drumming, distinctive sound, and ""feel"" for the groove, he is regarded by many as the greatest and most influential rock drummer in history. ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranked him number one in their list of the ""100 Greatest Drummers of All Time"". John Henry Bonham was born on 31 May 1948, in Redditch, Worcestershire, England, to Joan and Jack Bonham. He began learning to"
"cowbell. Bonham drum solos would often feature his playing floor toms and cymbals with his bare hands. He started using this technique as well as developing a finger-control style, influenced from hearing jazz recordings by drummer Joe Morello, during the early 1960s with his first band the Blue Star Trio. John Bonham John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer for the British rock band Led Zeppelin. Esteemed for his speed, power, fast bass drumming, distinctive sound, and ""feel"" for the groove, he is regarded by many"
"In Through the Out Door In Through the Out Door is the eighth and final studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was recorded over a three-week period in November and December 1978 at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, and released by Swan Song Records on 15 August 1979. In 1980, the band's drummer John Bonham died, and they disbanded soon after. The album is a reflection of the personal turmoil that the band members had been going through before and during its recording. Frontman Robert Plant and his wife had gone through a serious car"
"Through the Out Door"", to make something hard-hitting and riff-based again. Of course, we never got to make that album."" He is also quoted as saying, ""It wasn't the most comfortable album. I think it was very transitional ... a springboard for what could have been. ""In Through the Out Door"" was Led Zeppelin's final album to be released while all the original members were still living. Drummer John Bonham died the next year on 25 September 1980. In ""The Rolling Stone Album Guide"" (2004), Gaylord Fields said the album was ""maligned upon its release a retreat from heaviness"" but"
"dead in his flat and his funeral took place in his hometown of Darlington the following week. Former bandmates Toby Jepson and Jimmy Page were amongst the mourners in attendance. Michael Lee (musician) Michael Lee (19 November 1969 – 24 November 2008) was an English drummer who toured and recorded with former Led Zeppelin musicians Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Lee was born Michael Gary Pearson, and, similarly to Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, used large drum sizes, something he attributed to his height. His bass drum was 26"" in diameter, and his snare drum was a brass 14"" x 14"""
"Jimmy Page James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and, by the mid-1960s, alongside Big Jim Sullivan, was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Britain. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. In late 1968, he founded Led Zeppelin. Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. ""Rolling Stone"" magazine has"
"and was sentenced on 6 August 1996 to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, sought counselling, and served 30 days community service on a graffiti-removal work crew. Rick Allen (drummer) Richard John Cyril Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English drummer who has played for the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in 1985 and continued to play with the band, which subsequently went on to its most commercially successful phase. He is known as ""The Thunder God"" by fans. Rick Allen was born on November 1, 1963 in Dronfield, Derbyshire to"
"Michael Lee (musician) Michael Lee (19 November 1969 – 24 November 2008) was an English drummer who toured and recorded with former Led Zeppelin musicians Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Lee was born Michael Gary Pearson, and, similarly to Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, used large drum sizes, something he attributed to his height. His bass drum was 26"" in diameter, and his snare drum was a brass 14"" x 14"" shell. He started his professional career as drummer with Little Angels, a band from Scarborough who became one of the primary British rock acts of the early 1990s, however, Lee"
"Led Zeppelin broke up following drummer John Bonham's death in 1980. Black Sabbath plagued with infighting and substance abuse, while facing fierce competition with their opening band, the Los Angeles band Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen established himself as one of the leading metal guitarists of the era. His solo on ""Eruption"", from the band's self-titled 1978 album, is considered a milestone. Eddie Van Halen's sound even crossed over into pop music when his guitar solo was featured on the track ""Beat It"" by Michael Jackson (a U.S. number 1 in February 1983). Inspired by Van Halen's success, a metal"
"Keith Moon Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer for the rock band the Who. He was noted for his unique style and his eccentric, often self-destructive behaviour. His drumming continues to be praised by critics and musicians. He was posthumously inducted into the ""Modern Drummer"" Hall of Fame in 1982, becoming only the second rock drummer to be chosen, and in 2011, Moon was voted the second-greatest drummer in history by a ""Rolling Stone"" readers' poll. Moon grew up in Alperton, a suburb of Wembley, in Middlesex, and took up the drums"
"Rick Allen (drummer) Richard John Cyril Allen (born 1 November 1963) is an English drummer who has played for the hard rock band Def Leppard since 1978. He overcame the amputation of his left arm in 1985 and continued to play with the band, which subsequently went on to its most commercially successful phase. He is known as ""The Thunder God"" by fans. Rick Allen was born on November 1, 1963 in Dronfield, Derbyshire to Geoffrey Allen and Kathleen Moore, and started playing drums at the age of nine. He performed in the bands Grad, Smokey Blue, Rampant, and the"
"Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He was inducted into the ""DownBeat"" Hall of Fame in 1980 and the ""Modern Drummer"" Hall of Fame in 1992. Roach"
"Robert Plant Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. Plant is regarded as one of the greatest vocalists in the history of rock music. Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic rock-and-roll front man, similar to contemporaries such as Roger Daltrey of the Who, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and Jim Morrison of the Doors. With his mane of long blond hair and powerful, bare-chested appearance, Plant"
"usually the lead vocalist in these bands. He got a record deal with Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label, however, before they got to put out an album, Led Zeppelin's drummer, John Bonham died, and the label disbanded, as would the band later. In 1980, Fasano decided to put a band together; he brought in Richie Sambora, former Phantom's Opera bassist Alec John Such, drummer Andy Rubbo of the circuit band Flossie, and Simon Gannett, keyboard player of Mirthrandir and the New Jersey club band Rivendell. Bruce Foster, who had worked a lot with Richie Sambora, and who had also appeared"
"John Paul Jones (musician) John Richard Baldwin (born 3 January 1946), better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is an English musician and record producer who was the bassist in the rock band Led Zeppelin. Prior to forming the band with Jimmy Page in 1968, he was a session musician and arranger. After the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980, Zeppelin disbanded and Jones developed a solo career. He has collaborated with musicians across a variety of genres, including Josh Homme and Dave Grohl with the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures. John Baldwin was born in Sidcup, Kent."
"unable to perform the concert, which drummer would he recommend for the gig? Jason replied that if he had wanted to see Zeppelin live, he would want someone with a swing feel, and he named Dennis Chambers, stating that Chambers would 'get it, whereas a regular rock drummer would not.' In February 2009, Jason Bonham and James Dylan began working together in what would become Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, a live homage to his father's band. In autumn of 2010, Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience embarked on their first North American tour and toured worldwide during 2011. Bonham more"
"stadiums. In addition, Peter Grant lost interest in the group and management in general after Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died on 25 September 1980. In the words of Simon Kirke, ""Peter was definitely the glue which held us all together and in his absence we came apart"". A three-year hiatus from the studio ended with the release of ""Rough Diamonds"" in 1982. This would be the sixth and final LP in the group's original incarnation until four new songs were recorded in 1998. The album was the worst selling Bad Company album of those that had Paul Rodgers as"
"The 1980s also saw the birth of the grunge genre, with the arrival of such bands as Soundgarden, Green River, Melvins, Screaming Trees, Malfunkshun, Skin Yard, The U-Men, Blood Circus, Nirvana, Tad, Mudhoney, Mother Love Bone and Alice in Chains (who formed in 1987, but did not release their first album until three years later). Several notable music artists died of unnatural causes in the 1980s. Bon Scott, at the time lead singer of rock band AC/DC, died of acute alcohol poisoning on February 19, 1980. English drummer John Bonham of the rock band Led Zeppelin also died that year"
"Tour Over Europe 1980 Tour Over Europe 1980 was the last concert tour by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The tour ran from 17 June to 7 July 1980. Ten of the tour's shows were performed in cities throughout West Germany, as well as one show each in Brussels, Rotterdam, Vienna, Zürich, and West Berlin. This was the first series of concerts performed by the band since their shows at Knebworth almost a year before. Singer Robert Plant was reluctant to tour the United States, and the band wanted to avoid some of the negative press attention that had"
"Gene Krupa Eugene Bertram Krupa (January 15, 1909 – October 16, 1973) was an American jazz drummer, band leader, actor, and composer known for his energetic style and showmanship. His drum solo on ""Sing, Sing, Sing"" (1937) elevated the role of the drummer as a frequently used solo voice in the band. He is also known for defining the standard drum kit used today in collaboration with brands Slingerland and Zildjian. Krupa is considered ""the founding father of the modern drumset"" by ""Modern Drummer"" magazine. The youngest of Anna (née Oslowski) and Bartłomiej Krupa's nine children, Gene Krupa was born"
"Eric Carr Paul Charles Caravello (July 12, 1950 – November 24, 1991) better known by his stage name Eric Carr, was an American musician and multi-instrumentalist who was the drummer for the rock band Kiss from 1980 to 1991. Caravello was selected as the new Kiss drummer after Peter Criss left, when he chose the stage name ""Eric Carr"" and took up The Fox persona. He remained a member of Kiss until his death from heart cancer on November 24, 1991, at the age of 41. Born as Paul Charles Caravello on July 12, 1950, to Albert and Connie Caravello,"
"Zacron Zacron, born Richard Drew (1943 - January 2012) was an English artist who designed the ""Led Zeppelin III"" album cover. Zacron was born in Sutton, Surrey in 1943. He studied painting, drawing, design and etching at Studio 35 in Surbiton from 1957-1960 with Eric Clapton, and later at Kingston College of Art where he met Jimmy Page. He lectured at Leeds College of Art from 1967-1970. Zacron's innovation in graphic techniques laid the foundation for his creation of the ""Led Zeppelin III"" album cover in 1970. This album cover is a small component of a vast and varied body"
"archival Bolin releases as ""Whips and Roses"") co-produced (with Gov't Mule leader Warren Haynes) a star-studded tribute to Bolin, """", which was released in 2012, and featured contributions from Brad Whitford, Nels Cline, John Scofield, Myles Kennedy, Derek Trucks, Steve Morse, and Peter Frampton, among many others. Tommy Bolin Thomas Richard Bolin (August 1, 1951 – December 4, 1976) was an American guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), James Gang (from 1973 through 1974), and Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), in addition to maintaining a notable career as a solo artist and session musician."
"a fascination with fast cars and motorbikes, and raced for Hitachi on the UK saloon car circuit for a few months in the mid-seventies. He was quoted as saying in an interview, ""I drive like I drum – madly"". Cozy Powell Cozy Powell (birth name Colin Trevor Flooks) (29 December 1947 – 5 April 1998) was an English rock drummer, who made his name with many major rock bands and artists like The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Gary Moore, Robert Plant, Brian May, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, and Black Sabbath. Powell had appeared on at least 66 albums, with"
"the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre and Royal United Hospital, in Bristol. Jimmy Copley James Frank Copley (29 December 1953 – 13 May 2017) was an English rock drummer. Copley was largely a session musician who has worked with Jeff Beck, Graham Parker, Upp, Paul Young, Magnum, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple, Go West, Killing Joke, Tears for Fears, Seal, Tony Iommi and Paul Rodgers. Copley was the drummer with Manfred Mann's Earth Band since 2007. Copley was a master of the open-handed drumming technique. The method is without crossing the hands when playing the"
"Jimmy Copley James Frank Copley (29 December 1953 – 13 May 2017) was an English rock drummer. Copley was largely a session musician who has worked with Jeff Beck, Graham Parker, Upp, Paul Young, Magnum, Roger Glover, Ian Gillan and Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple, Go West, Killing Joke, Tears for Fears, Seal, Tony Iommi and Paul Rodgers. Copley was the drummer with Manfred Mann's Earth Band since 2007. Copley was a master of the open-handed drumming technique. The method is without crossing the hands when playing the hi-hat (or ride-cymbal) and snare drum simultaneously as opposed to the more"
"until August that year. Zacron Zacron, born Richard Drew (1943 - January 2012) was an English artist who designed the ""Led Zeppelin III"" album cover. Zacron was born in Sutton, Surrey in 1943. He studied painting, drawing, design and etching at Studio 35 in Surbiton from 1957-1960 with Eric Clapton, and later at Kingston College of Art where he met Jimmy Page. He lectured at Leeds College of Art from 1967-1970. Zacron's innovation in graphic techniques laid the foundation for his creation of the ""Led Zeppelin III"" album cover in 1970. This album cover is a small component of a"
"studio set composed of Ludwig, Slingerland, Rogers and Gretsch components and probably Zildjian cymbals. By the late 1960s, Benjamin struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, and fellow Funk Brothers Uriel Jones and Richard ""Pistol"" Allen increasingly recorded more of the drum tracks for the studio's releases. Benjamin died on April 20, 1969 of a stroke at age 43, and was inducted into the ""Sidemen"" category of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Benny Benjamin William ""Benny"" Benjamin (July 25, 1925 – April 20, 1969), nicknamed Papa Zita, was an American musician, most notable as the primary drummer"
"in his life. On 6 March 1992, one day after what would have been Andy Gibb's 34th birthday, Hugh died of internal bleeding at the age of 76. Hugh lies buried in the same cemetery as Andy in the Court of Remembrance section, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles. Barry Gibb's reaction was ""I believe all this was meant to happen, I miss my father of course, but he stopped living when Andy died and I'm sure he's happier now"". Hugh Gibb Hugh Leslie Gibb (15 January 1916 – 6 March 1992) was an English drummer and bandleader and the"
"Birdcage Records. The Prime Movers, with new drummer, Gary Falasco, had a short-lived reunion and re-released their first album, 1984's ""Museum,"" for the first time on CD. Jah Paul Jo died December 29, 2014, at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, California, after experiencing numerous health problems in his final years. Jah Paul Jo Joseph Jack ""Severs"" Ramsey, better known by his stage name Jah Paul Jo (November 1, 1956 – December 29, 2014) was an American musician, singer and producer best known for creating the novelty band Dread Zeppelin. From 1983 to 1988, Ramsey was the singer/bass player in The Prime"
"drums on Linda Ronstadt's 1974 single ""You're No Good"", and tracks on the 1976 albums ""Nine on a Ten Scale"" by Sammy Hagar and ""Sibling Rivalry"" by The Rowans. He later appeared as the sole drummer on David Soul's ""Playing to an Audience of One"" and Rocky Sullivan's 1984 ""Caught in the Crossfire"" record. On June 5, 1990, Hodder drowned in the swimming pool of his Point Arena, California home. He was 42 years old. Jim Hodder (musician) Jim Hodder (December 17, 1947 – June 5, 1990) was an American drummer, best known as an early member of Steely Dan."
"of the band The Power Station along with Robert Palmer, and John Taylor and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran. The Live Aid charity benefit concert in 1985 saw Thompson filling in and playing with the Power Station as well as joining the remaining members of Led Zeppelin on stage (along with Phil Collins) at John F. Kennedy Stadium. During a reunion attempt in 1986 it was rumored that Led Zeppelin asked Thompson to join them as a replacement for John Bonham. The reunion stalled in part because fans wanted to see Bonham, not Thompson, and Bonham was dead. Thompson was"